Who Is Coco Gauff’s R1 Opponent, Varvara Gracheva? Everything You Need to Know About the French Star

Coco goof has finally arrived at the tournament that she has been waiting for in the last few months the 20-year-old American tennis star has struggled a bit with her consistency in the last few tournaments so she'll be Keen to turn things back on track at the 2024 US Open the defending champ starts her campaign on Monday August 26th Goff has been handed a tricky draw as she will take on verar graa in the first round this French tennis star has an interesting story in her life do you know graa used to represent Russia before switching to France in the last year verva graa was born in Moscow in 2000 however she moved to France at the age of 16 to train at the elite Tennis Center in can this 24-year-old tennis player had the chance to train alongside several tennis stars like denil Medvedev she has now become a promising player on the women's tour but who was the first person to introduce graa to the ret sport well according to multiple sources her mother Natalia casova introduced her to the sport she even coached her until the age of 14 near zikovsky later on graa was forced to look abroad for better training facilities she moved to Germany to train under Nina brova before joining the ETC Academy in France in 2016 in the ETC Academy she trained with Gerard solves and her current coach Xavier pujo after having lived in France for quite a few years she applied for French naturalization in March 2023 her request was accepted in May 2023 graa started representing France in the 2023 bad hurg open she played her first pro event in 2017 in 2019 she made a rapid shift in her career as she made her debut in the top 125 she won a $25,000 event in chiasso and made her grand slam main draw debut at the 2020 US Open she took down Paula badosa in straight sets which was one of the biggest victories in her career so far her best record at the US Open has been reaching the third round in 2020 and 2021 graa reached her highest career ranking 39 in January 2024 and currently she's ranked 66th in the world Coco goof has met her only once in her career in this year's qf of the ASB classic the American one that match quite comprehensively that time what will happen this time around gof said coming in as defending Champion is always a a little bit of pressure but also it comes up with a bit of a privilege she doesn't want to stress herself too much over a Victory lap this match will show two stars trading blows who will graa take inspiration from to attempt to win against golf Coco Goofs our one opponent at the 2024 US Open has a tennis Idol during an interview fvar graa was asked to name the person who inspires her the most from the tennis world in reply she said that she respects all the players and she thinks everyone does a tremendous job graa admitted that she never looked up to anyone however she also revealed if there is someone who should be admired it's definitely NAD doll he remains such a simple person even with such an incredible amount of grand slams won I did not communicate with him but I saw how he behaved on Court and in life she said her coach had once got the chance to meet Raphael Nadal graa admires the the King of Clay but apart from that she said her mom inspires her the most for those who are unaware graa even has a brother but does he play tennis as well well she once gave the answer to this question as well I have a younger brother but he does not play tennis laughs